Orlando · For international exhibitors

Exhibition Stand Builder in Orlando

Fly the team over. Leave the freight at home.

Custom exhibition stands for IAAPA Expo, PGA Show and every Orange County Convention Center event — fabricated in the US and delivered on one fixed USD price signed before work starts. No ocean freight, no carnets, no US entity required. Send your space size in metres; approve renders in your morning; land to a finished stand.

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0Customs forms, carnets or ocean freight
500+Projects delivered nationwide
24 hrQuote turnaround, any time zone
1Project manager, brief to dismantle
Our work

Stands built to compete with an audience’s imagination

Orlando’s floors belong to industries that sell experiences — attractions, golf, leisure, retail — in front of buyers who flew in from every continent expecting to be shown something. Everything below came out of our own shop: designed, fabricated, printed and wired by one team, then stood up complete and photographed before shipping. What you approve from abroad is what lands on the floor.

Also built for Genea, Dunnhumby, Chili Piper, LHH, Calm and Spekit.

The international decision

The stand that never sees a port

An Orlando show puts an ocean between your warehouse and your space — and every solution that starts with “we’ll ship ours” inherits the whole chain: export crating, sailing schedules, customs entries, drayage billed on the loaded weight of the crates, and a stand you can’t inspect between the port of departure and the morning it’s supposed to open. The stand was never the expensive part. The crossing is.

Building on this side deletes the chain. Your design language carries over — send photos or CAD of the stand your brand runs in Europe or the Gulf and we rebuild it to US materials and US electrical code — while the freight, the paperwork and the transit risk never enter the project at all.

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Nothing crosses a border

No carnets, no brokers, no duty questions, no crate sitting in clearance while your show opens. Fabricated, trucked and installed inside one country, on one fixed number.

02

US electrical from the start

Overseas components routinely fail US floor inspection — voltage, plugs, certification marks. Everything we wire is US code from the first cable, so the inspection is a formality, not a show-morning crisis.

03

Your design, translated

Existing stand drawings become an Orlando build: imperial dimensions, your show’s height and rigging rules, and any forced changes flagged at render stage — visible from your desk, months out.

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Lighter freight, smaller bills

The show bills material handling by weight, and a locally built rental reaches the dock at a fraction of an imported stand’s crated mass. We forecast that line against your build before you sign.

The US show floor, translated

The vocabulary is quick. The system is the surprise.

Exhibitors arrive in Orlando from more than a hundred countries, and most of them meet the North American show-floor system for the first time here — a system with no equivalent at the venues of Europe, the Gulf or Asia. Six terms decide budgets and schedules on this floor. Learn them from a paragraph, not an invoice.

Drayage

No equivalent outside North America

The fee for moving freight between the loading dock and your space, billed by weight. Nobody can waive it and no honest vendor “includes” it — but it can be forecast to the dollar against your actual freight and filed at advance rates. We do both before you commit.

Show labour

≈ Appointed contractors, per show rules

Who may build what on a US floor is set by the show and venue, not by habit — and while Florida’s rules leave exhibitors more latitude than the northern union cities, a custom island is still crew-built work. Our fixed price carries the crews and supervision, so there’s nothing for you to source.

Shell scheme

≈ Pipe and drape — far more basic

The fitted walls and fascia included with space at home don’t exist here. A US inline space arrives as carpet and curtain at most; the entire visible stand is yours to bring — or to have built on this side of the ocean.

Targeted move-in

≈ Build-up schedule, assigned per exhibitor

Orlando’s big shows assign freight arrival windows by hall zone, with penalty rates for off-target loads. Your window sits in the exhibitor manual; we plan fabrication, trucking and crew calls backwards from it.

Exhibitor manual

≈ Technical regulations, US edition

Height limits, hanging-sign approvals, order deadlines for power, internet and cleaning — all in one long document per show. We read it, file everything we’re permitted to file, and hand you the short list only the exhibitor can order.

10×10, 20×20, island

Sizes in feet, not metres

US floor plans sell in feet: your 3×3 m is roughly a 10×10, your 6×9 m a 20×30. The pricing table below carries both units — quote your space in whichever your contract uses.

Orlando pricing

The numbers, in USD, in the open

Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibition stands in Orlando, invoiced in USD to your home-country entity — international wire or card, no US bank account or address required. Print these, convert them at today’s rate, and take them into your budget meeting.

Fixed pricing · Orlando · all-inclusive
FootprintMetricFixed price (USD)Typical use
10×10≈ 3×3 m · 9 m²$13,000 – $15,500Inline. First US market entry, lead capture.
10×20≈ 3×6 m · 18 m²$20,000 – $24,000Inline. Demo plus seated conversation.
20×20≈ 6×6 m · 37 m²$31,000 – $35,000Island. Two or three zones, four-sided.
20×30≈ 6×9 m · 56 m²$33,000 – $38,500Island. Adds a semi-private meeting space.
20×40≈ 6×12 m · 74 m²$38,500 – $49,500Island. Demo experience plus meeting zone.
20×50≈ 6×15 m · 93 m²$44,000 – $55,000Island. Long-run product wall.
30×30≈ 9×9 m · 84 m²$44,000 – $55,000Island. Enclosed meeting room, theatre seating.
30×40≈ 9×12 m · 111 m²$60,500 – $71,500Island. Flagship, double-deck capable.
In the fixed price Design & build
  • Stand design in 3D, revised until approved — free of charge
  • Fabrication in our own shop, to US electrical code
  • Graphics production, mounting and QC
  • Flooring, furniture, lighting
  • Screens, mounts and AV hardware
Logistics & service
  • Complete pre-assembly with photo approval before shipping
  • Round-trip freight to your Orlando venue
  • Supervised install and dismantle crews
  • COI, EAC and show-services paperwork
  • A single project manager, reachable in your working hours
Billed by the show, not by us

The venue invoices these directly to every exhibitor, whichever exhibit company builds the stand — no vendor anywhere can legitimately “include” them. We estimate each line against your actual stand before you commit, then file the orders inside the advance-rate window.

  • Stand space itself
  • Electrical drops and floor distribution
  • Material handling (drayage)
  • Rigging, if you’re hanging a sign
  • Daily stand cleaning
  • Internet
The ocean invoice

The crossing costs as much as the stand

Shipping an owned stand looks free because the stand is paid for. Then the crossing gets priced: crating, two ocean legs, customs, drayage on the loaded weight, and US crews decoding a metric kit against a show deadline. For a 6×9 m island — a typical IAAPA or PGA Show footprint — the logistics bill lands within a rounding error of simply building the stand here:

Flying your stand to Orlando
Refurbishment & export crating$4,000
Ocean freight, both directions, insured+ $9,000
Customs brokerage / ATA carnet+ $2,300
Drayage on the full crated weight+ $5,500
US crews assembling an unfamiliar metric kit+ $7,000
Electrical rework to pass US inspection+ $2,500
Spent on logistics, not the stand$30,300
Plus transit damage risk you still own
Pure Exhibits, built in the US
6×9 m (20×30) custom stand, fixed$33,000
Ocean freight & customsNone exist
Domestic round-trip freightIncluded
Install & dismantle crewsIncluded
US-code electricalBuilt in
Spent on the stand itself$33,000
Photo-verified before it ships

On the venue’s invoice in both scenarios: space, electrical service, drayage, rigging, cleaning, internet — the show’s own tariffed charges, billed to every exhibitor whoever builds. The difference is the weight the drayage gets billed on, and which side of the comparison forecast those lines before you signed.

Spend the budget on the stand, not the water. One number buys crates on a ship and a month of tracking anxiety; the other buys a finished stand you approved in photographs — and your product samples, the only thing that genuinely needs to fly, travel light.

Orange County Convention Center

One name, two buildings. Confirm which before anything books.

The Orange County Convention Center is the second-largest convention venue in the US, split across two buildings on opposite sides of International Drive — the West Building and the North-South Building — linked for attendees but operationally separate. From a contract PDF read in another hemisphere, “OCCC” looks like one address; for docks, freight and crew calls, it’s two. The building letter on your space contract is the first fact we plan from.

West Building

IAAPA Expo · the giant halls

The larger of the two, home to Orlando’s biggest floors. Long dock-to-space hauls across vast halls make the assigned freight window decisive — and machinery-scale exhibits at IAAPA add rigging and floor-loading coordination we start weeks early.

North-South Building

Association & mid-size expos

Across International Drive with its own halls and docks. A plan built for the West Building doesn’t transfer — different marshalling, different routes, different rules of thumb — so nothing gets copied between the two, including by us.

Resort convention centres

Gaylord Palms · corporate & incentive events

Orlando’s resort venues carry a heavy corporate calendar of their own. Ballroom logistics are a separate discipline — freight elevators, padded corridors, overnight installs — and the fixed price covers them the same way.

What we run for you here
  • Building and hall confirmation from your contract before anything books
  • Floor plan filings and venue approvals
  • Dock target times scheduled to the right building
  • Electrical, rigging and drayage ordered at advance rates
  • COI and contractor paperwork per venue
  • Supervised install, show-day support, dismantle
Worth knowing before you plan

Orlando’s autumn shows overlap the Atlantic hurricane season, so for those dates we schedule freight with weather margin and hold the pre-build photo gate earlier — a storm should cost the plan a buffer, never the stand. The upside of the calendar: Orlando’s airport runs direct routes from dozens of international cities, which makes it one of the easiest US shows for an overseas team to actually get to.

The IAAPA problem

At IAAPA, the stand competes with roller coasters

IAAPA Expo fills the West Building every November with the global attractions industry — buyers and builders from over a hundred countries, walking a floor where the exhibits move, light up, and occasionally loop. It’s very likely the most international show floor in America, and the hardest one on which to be ignored.

The design brief that follows: if you sell an experience, the stand must let people experience it — live demo space with the power, data and safety clearances filed before the floor plan is approved, queue room that doesn’t choke the aisle, and sound planned rather than inflicted. And behind the spectacle, a quiet layer: an enclosed room where a park operator and a manufacturer can talk numbers, because that conversation — not the demo — is what the airfare was for.

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Demo-first engineering

Your exhibit’s footprint, power draw, clearances and sight lines shape the stand from the first render — so the experience runs all day instead of fighting its own architecture.

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Crowd handling built in

Queue space, viewing angles and aisle relief designed for a floor where a good demo draws a crowd in minutes — and where a crowd blocking the aisle draws show management just as fast.

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A quiet room behind the noise

Acoustic separation good enough for a contract conversation ten metres from your own demo. The spectacle earns the meeting; the room closes it.

Your US calendar runs past Orlando? Las Vegas, Chicago, New York and fifty more cities run on the same published fixed model — one stand design, one project manager, every city’s price known before your show year starts.

In their words

What event managers say after the show

★★★★★
“They never just build the booth and disappear — I always know I have someone on call and ready to jump in when the unexpected inevitably happens. That level of responsiveness makes a huge difference in high-pressure event environments.”
Amanda Horner · Three years of Adobe Summit booths · Google Review
★★★★★
“I’ve worked with Pure Exhibits for almost a year now, and have had such a great experience! They are our go-to for trade shows, and create memorable booths that represent our brand well. The team is incredibly responsive and reliable.”
Lexi von Schottenstein · Google Review
★★★★★
“It’s always a pleasure to work with Utsav. The process is simple, straightforward, and high quality. I have worked with them for 3 years now and will continue!”
Carlos Bautista · Three-year client · Google Review
★★★★★
“Their team is incredibly flexible throughout the design process and truly collaborative in bringing ideas to life. I highly recommend Pure Exhibits to anyone looking for a reliable, thoughtful, and experienced exhibit partner.”
Amanda Horner · Google Review
Orlando show calendar

When to start, by show

The fixtures international exhibitors fly in for, with the planning runway each realistically needs — measured from your first email, not the flight. Around these, the OCCC’s two buildings and the resort venues carry rotating national congresses all year; name yours and we’ll pull its manual before we quote.

Verify months annually · rotating meetings not listed
ShowTypical monthVenueStart planning
PGA ShowJanuaryOCCC4 months
Surf ExpoJanuary & SeptemberOCCC4 months
Global Pet ExpoMarchOCCC4 months
Premiere OrlandoMay – JuneOCCC4 months
IAAPA ExpoNovemberOCCC West Building6 months

IAAPA gets six months — live-demo stands carry power, safety and floor-loading coordination on top of the normal approvals, the November date sits inside hurricane-season freight planning, and for overseas teams the same window covers visas, flights and shipping the product samples that genuinely must travel.

Working backwards

The calendar that matters runs in reverse

Show dates don’t create cost pressure — order deadlines do, and the decisive one closes roughly eight weeks out, when advance rates on electrical, rigging and drayage expire. For a team planning across an ocean, the whole project exists to arrive at that gate comfortably, with your only travel being the flight to the show itself.

−6 MONTHSScope agreed in one call in your morning; fixed USD figure signed.
−4 MONTHSBuilding confirmed from your contract; layout submitted for approval.
−10 WEEKSArtwork frozen — your files, converted to imperial print specs by us.
−8 WEEKSAdvance rates on show services expire. The gate everything aims at.
−4 WEEKSFreight slot and dock time locked at your building; weather margin held for autumn dates.
−2 WEEKSComplete build stands in our shop; photo sign-off from your desk.
SHOW WEEKInstall lands in your window; you fly in to a working stand.
Rush and last-minute

Your crate missed the sailing. The show won’t wait — we don’t either.

A container rolled to the next vessel, a customs hold with the show three weeks out, a US space approved late in the budget year — the international emergencies follow a pattern, and they end the same way: a stand is needed on an Orlando floor in weeks, not months. With design, fabrication and print in one building, approval-to-floor runs about four weeks. Same quality gate — built and photographed before shipping — same published price.

  • Roughly four weeks, approval to show floor
  • Photo-verified pre-build, even on rush
  • 10×10 through 20×40 (3×3 m through 6×12 m) on compressed timelines
  • The published price holds — no rush premium
Questions international exhibitors actually ask

Exhibition stands in Orlando — FAQs

How much does an exhibition stand cost in Orlando?
The table above is the answer: $13,000–$15,500 for a 3×3 m (10×10) through $60,500–$71,500 for a 9×12 m (30×40) — design, fabrication, graphics, furniture, freight, crews and management in one contractual USD figure. The venue bills space, electrical, drayage and rigging separately to every exhibitor; we forecast those lines against your stand before you sign.
We have no US company. Can we still work with you?
Yes — a large share of our clients exhibit in the US with no local presence at all. We invoice the fixed figure in USD to your home-country entity, accept international wire transfer and card, and provide the contract and payment documentation your finance team needs. No US bank account, address or subsidiary required.
Is it really cheaper to build in the US than to ship our stand?
Total both directions of ocean freight, insurance, customs or carnet fees, drayage on the full crated weight, and US labour assembling an unfamiliar metric kit, and the answer is nearly always yes — the comparison above walks a 6×9 m island through it line by line, and the logistics bill lands within a rounding error of the stand’s entire price. The part no spreadsheet captures: a stand damaged mid-ocean three weeks before IAAPA has no good outcome. Building locally deletes the risk along with the cost.
Can you rebuild the stand design we use at European shows?
Yes. Send photos or CAD of your existing stand and we rebuild the design to US materials, US electrical code, and the height, rigging and setback rules of your specific Orlando show. Most designs translate directly; anything a regulation forces gets flagged at render stage — visible from your desk, months out — not on the show floor.
What is drayage, and is it in your price?
Drayage (material handling) is the venue’s fee for moving freight between dock and stand space, billed by weight and invoiced directly to every exhibitor — no vendor can legitimately include it, and any who claims to has buried it. We forecast the line precisely against your actual stand before you sign, then file inside the advance-rate window. A locally built stand also simply weighs less at the dock than an imported crate, which is the honest way that bill shrinks.
Can our own team build the stand in Orlando?
Florida’s rules give exhibitors more latitude than the northern union cities, but what you may build yourself is still set by each show’s regulations, and a custom island is crew-built work under any of them. Our fixed price already carries the crews and supervision — the practical answer for a team flying in from overseas is that there’s nothing to build, source or manage either way.
Our stand at IAAPA includes a live demo. Can you handle that?
It’s the defining IAAPA brief. Your exhibit’s footprint, power draw, data needs and safety clearances go into the design from the first render, queue space and sight lines get planned so a crowd helps rather than blocks, and the power and rigging orders are filed with the floor plan. We coordinate your demo hardware’s arrival alongside the stand install, whether it ships from your factory or a US distributor.
IAAPA is in November. Does hurricane season affect the plan?
It affects the buffers, not the outcome. For autumn dates we schedule freight with weather margin and hold the pre-build photo gate earlier, so a storm consumes contingency rather than show days. Your stand is complete, verified and photographed well before it travels — the season is a reason to plan tighter, not to worry from another hemisphere.
How do approvals work across time zones?
Mostly asynchronously: renders and revisions move by email on a one-to-two-day cycle, and live calls are scheduled in your morning. The project has two hard checkpoints you can verify from anywhere — approved 3D renders before fabrication, and photographs of your completed, powered stand before it ships to the venue. We run projects with teams across Europe, the Gulf and Asia-Pacific on every major show cycle.
Our US calendar includes other cities. Do you cover them?
More than fifty of them — Las Vegas, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Dallas, Anaheim and beyond, on the same published fixed model. One stand design, one project manager, and a known USD price in each city, so a multi-show US year budgets in a single sitting from your home office.
Fixed USD pricing · No US entity needed · Full-service

Your Orlando stand, without the ocean.

Tell us the show and your space size — metres or feet. Within 24 hours: design concepts, one fixed USD figure, and the venue’s own charges forecast beside it. Approve everything from your desk; the only things that fly are your team and your samples.

Or call us directly — (800) 379-8451